The assembly of gods: or, The accord of reason and sensuality in the fear of death; by John Lydgate. Ed. from the mss. with introduction, notes, index of persons and places, and glossary. By Oscar Lovell Triggs.

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The assembly of gods: or, The accord of reason and sensuality in the fear of death; by John Lydgate. Ed. from the mss. with introduction, notes, index of persons and places, and glossary. By Oscar Lovell Triggs.
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Chicago,: University of Chicago Press,
1895.
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[Omitted in B. C follows the Camb. MS., closing: Here endyth the Interpretacion of the names of Goddis and Goddesses as is rehercyd in thys treatyse folowynge.] Here foloweth the Interpretacion of the names of goddys & goddesses as ys rehersyd in þis tretyse folowyng as poetes wryte:

PHEBUS:
ys as moche to sey as þe Sonne.
APOLLO:
ys the same or ellys God of Lyght.
MORPHEUS:
Shewer of Dremes.
PLUTO:
God of Hell.
MYNOS:
Iuge of Hell.
CERBERUS:
Porter of Hell.
EOLUS:
þe Wynde or God of þe Eyre.
DIANA:
Goddesse of Woode & Chace.
PHEBE:
þe Mone or Goddes of Watyres.
AURORA:
Goddes of þe Morow or the Spryng of the Day.
MARS:
God of Batayll.
IUBYTER:
God of Wysdom.
IUNO:
Goddesse of Rychesse.
SATURNE:
God of Colde.
CERES:
Goddesse of Corne.
CUPIDO:
God of Loue.
OTHEA:
Goddes of Wysdom.
FORTUNE:
þe variaunt Goddesse.
PAN:
God of Shepardes.
ISYS:
Goddesse of Frute.
NEPTUNUS:
God of the See.
MYNERUE:
Goddesse of Batayll, or of Harueyst.
BACHUS:
God of Wyne.
MERCURIUS:
God of Langage.
VENUS:
Goddesse of Loue.
DISCORDE:
Goddesse of Debate and Stryfe.
ATTROPOS:
Dethe.

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